Bread 38 years old
Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.
Credits
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Melanie Hill She was 24 , now 62 years old | |
| Jean Boht She was 54 , now 92 years old | |
| Rita Tushingham She was 44 , now 82 years old | |
| Victor McGuire He was 22 , now 60 years old | |
| Simon Rouse He was 34 , now 73 years old | |
| Nick Conway He was 23 , now 61 years old | |
| Pamela Power | |
| Bryan Murray He was 43 , 74 years old when he died | |
| Jonathon Morris He was 25 , now 64 years old | |
| Deborah Grant She was 39 , now 77 years old |
Crew
| Name | Job title |
|---|
Bread (38 years)
Ended
- First Air Date: 1986-05-01
- Runtime: [30] minutes
- Number of Episodes: 74